B.Tech (Metallurgical Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1996. Ph.D. on experimental and computational studies on laser processing of dissimilar metals, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2002. Guest scientist and Alexander von Humboldt scholar with German Aerospace Center, Cologne, German between 2002 and 2005. Assistant professor (2005-2010) and Associate Professor (2010-2015) and from November 2015 as Professor with Indian Institute of Technology Madras.